• G5 conference focuses on sharing the hope of Christ

  The fifth generation of Texas Baptist church leaders is called to continue sharing the hope of Christ throughout the state, and they’ll do it in an environment unlike any in Texas history, Baptist General Convention of Texas leaders observed.

  10/29/2010 - By admin

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  At 60, CLC continues challenging, shaping Texas

  Born with “a dream and an ache in the heart” 60 years ago, the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission has challenged and helped shape the state ever since.

  10/29/2010 - By admin

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  CERI helps AIDS orphans cope with loss

  Children’s Emergency Relief International Executive Director Dearing Garner recently took part in a three-day meeting in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where the focus was all about building resiliency and healing the emotional wounds of children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

  10/29/2010 - By admin

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  Breckenridge Village, CERI team up to help orphans

  Two Baptist Child & Family Services programs have joined forces again in a special tradition. In anticipation of Children’s Emergency Relief International’s annual winter mission to Eastern Europe, residents from Breckenridge Village of Tyler knitted more than 375 warm wool hats to protect orphaned and impoverished children from frostbite.

  10/29/2010 - By admin

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  Labor of love by Christian volunteers changes lives in colonias

  The Rosales and Beltran families are just two of hundreds living in primitive conditions in colonias along the Texas/Mexico border who have seen their lives transformed through the efforts of Christian volunteers with Buckner International who build homes and spread hope.

  10/29/2010 - By admin

• Texas Tidbits

  The Baptist University of the Américas’ alumni and friends reception at the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in McAllen, Fiesta Con BUA, will be Nov. 9, 9-10:30 p.m. in Ballroom A-D of the McAllen Convention Center.

  10/28/2010 - By admin

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  Around the State

  Children’s Mission Involvement Day will be held Nov. 6 at the Texas Port Ministry in Freeport. Bobby Fuller, the ministry’s director, will speak to children about the ministry and how they can be involved in shipping the Good News around the world.

  10/28/2010 - By admin

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  Southwestern Seminary celebrates 100 years in Fort Worth

   Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary celebrated a milestone of 100 years at its current location with a chapel service Oct. 19 focusing on its founder, B.H. Carroll, and his successor L. R. Scarborough, who led the seminary from 1915 to 1942.

  10/25/2010 - By Administrator

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  Age no barrier to extended missions service for East Texas couple

  William and Wynna Withers never expected to fall in love with the people of Ukraine. In fact, for most of their married life, the couple never imagined leaving their home in Buna, deep in the East Texas Big Thicket.

  10/21/2010 - By admin

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  Pastor renews call for change in messenger-seating challenges

  An East Texas pastor who proposed a process to change how the Baptist General Convention of Texas handles messenger-seating challenges plans to bring up the issue again at the convention’s annual meeting in McAllen, Nov. 8-9.

  10/21/2010 - By admin

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  BGCT gets ready for first annual meeting in Rio Grande Valley

  Texas Baptists will gather in the lower Rio Grande Valley for the first time for their annual meeting Nov. 8-10, spreading the hope of Christ throughout the region, as well as being encouraged and empowered to share the gospel when they return home.

  10/21/2010 - By admin

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  Why sing? Worship leaders explore question at Baylor conference

  Why is Christianity a faith that sings? More than 2,000 worship leaders and Christian musicians from around the country gathered on the Baylor University campus to explore that question during the “Fantastical” Church Music Conference.

  10/21/2010 - By admin